Tagged: tea board

What the Name on an Assam Orthodox Tin Guarantees

When a tin says "Assam Orthodox," it is making a legal promise: real whole-leaf tea grown and rolled in the Brahmaputra valley. Here is exactly what that promise covers, and the one border where it stops.

The Assam Tea Trade

Assam tea is grown by two entirely different kinds of producer and sold down two entirely different channels, one of them compulsory by law. The canonical account of who grows it, how it reaches a buyer, what the auction settles that a private sale does not, and the rules that bind both.

The Tocklai Institute

The complete record of the Tocklai Tea Research Institute at Jorhat, the world's oldest tea research station and the office behind nearly every clone, pest study, and quality benchmark this office has ever certified. How a single chemist's post in 1891 became a formal station in 1911, what its eleven divisions do, and the science it has produced since.